The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15
IN A QUARANTINE CAMP.
How the Station n ear Plant City Looks
Its Inmates and Surroundings.
From the Orlando (Fid.) Recor

How the Station ear Plant City LOOKS
Its Inmates and Surroundings.
From the Orlando (Ffa) Record.
The quarantine station on the South Flor
ida road is at point about six miles below
Lakeland, and there are now held there
about thirty persons, most of whom are
citizens of Polk county, who, upon return
ing from a Baptist convention held near
Plant City were nabbed by the quarantine
officers, and are now serving out their ill
teen days as suspects. There are among the
number three ministers, one of whom IS III
a constant state of excitement over his
detention, claiming that it will surely Kill
him, while as matter OF TACT
he is about as robust as any in the camp,
all of whom are in a splendid state of
health; and with the exception of the min
lister mentioned and a New York drummer,
who was caught on his way North from
Tampa, are all in good spirits, and take
their involuntary camp life in a good hui
mored manner.
The camp consists of three tents, which
afford comfortable accommodations for
about ten or twelve, while the balance have
had to roost on stumps and other equally
convenient sleeping apartments. From this
time on they will, however, have first-rate
accommodations, as, at the request of Dr.
Wylly, the Governor has expressed twelve
wall tents, which are expected to arrive to-
day.
The camp is in charge of j. w. Morwell,
who seems to possess all the requirements
of nerve and backbone necessary to make
him an efficient officer.
From this point i'll either direction,
running along the line which
divides Polk from Hillsborough
county, is force of about twenty
five horsemen who keep up a constant pa
troll night and day. The arrangements for
an efficient quarantine are admirable and
those in charge appear determined 10 spare
no effort to make the lockout as near per-
feet as possible.
Capt. Eppes Tucker, Mayor Of Lakeland
and Chairman of the Polk county Board of
Health, who has the matter under his i'm
mediate charge, appears to be just the man
for the place.
Just below the quarantine. camp is the
hospital Of the South Florida railroad,
neat one-story house, within a mile and
half of Plant City. This hospital is in charge
of DIR. Frank H. Caldwell, of Sanford. who
has under him two efficient nurses, one a
regular yellow fever nurse from Savannah
The hospital is fitted up with all the conve-
niences of q first-claSS dispensaTy, and has
all the appliances for the effective treat
ment of the disease A few rods from the
hospital fumigator has been built, by
Wnlcn all Jne mails from tampa are IuInl-
gated. The arrangement consists of a ten
feet square wooden structure, fitted with
rows of Melted wire shelving. When the
mail is brought from Tampa it is all taken
from the pouches and latd upon the wire
shelves; under the shelves are placed pots of
sulphur, which are ignited and the doors
closed, making an almost air-tight COM
partment. The mail is allowed to remain
i n thu closed room receiving the fumes of
1lvAhY txxrn
way. While at this point we learned from
Dr. Caldwell that there were two or three
suspicious cases of fever at Plant City,
which the resident physician, Dr. Wells, of
that place, pronounces yellow fever. The
cases are being closely watched.